Word

ἐξαλείφω

exaleíphō · G1813 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to wipe away

To remove a liquid by wiping off

Examples
Revelation 7:17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 21:4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
to eliminate, to do away with, to wipe out

(A figurative extension of meaning of ἐξαλείφω ‘to wipe off, to wipe away,’) To cause something to cease by obliterating any evidence

Examples
Acts 3:19 “Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;
Colossians 2:14 having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Revelation 3:5 ‘The one who overcomes will be clothed the same way, in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

θεόςGod 1
ἁμαρτίαsin 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

δάκρυtear 2
ἐγώI, we 1
ὄνομαname 1
χειρόγραφονaccount 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐκfrom+ ὀφθαλμόςeye 2
ἐκfrom+ βίβλοςscroll 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

οὐnot 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πρόςto, toward, with 3

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

מָחָה mâchâh · H4229 · to wipe, to erase, to blot out: Greek ἐξαλείφω (exaleiphō) renders Hebrew מָחָה (māḥâ) as its primary LXX translation equivalent, both denoting the act of wiping out/obliterating with shared metaphorical extension to blotting out sin or memory (e.g., Exodus 32:32-33, Psalm 51:1).

Semantic domains 2 entries

To eliminate, to do away with, to wipe out13.102: This verb describes completely removing or erasing something, used of Peter's call to repentance so that sins may be wiped away — "repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away" (Acts 3:19), and of the promise to the overcomer in Sardis that Christ will never erase his name from the book of life — "I will not erase his name from the book of life" (Revelation 3:5).
To wipe away47.18: It also describes the literal wiping away of tears, used of the promise that the Lamb will guide His people to springs of living water and God will wipe every tear from their eyes — "God will wipe every tear from their eyes" (Revelation 7:17), and again in the vision of the new heaven and earth, "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes" (Revelation 21:4).

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

λιπαρός liparós · G3045 · splendid, luxurious, glamorous · 1×ἀλείφω aleíphō · G218 · to anoint · 9×ἐξαλείφωexaleíphō · G1813

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future ἐξαλείψω; 1 aorist participle ἐξαλείψας; 1 aorist passive infinitive…

: future ἐξαλείψω; 1 aorist participle ἐξαλείψας; 1 aorist passive infinitive ἐξαλειφθῆναι ((WH ἐξαλιφθῆναι; see their Appendix, p. 154, and under the word Iota));
1. (εξ( denoting completeness (cf. ἐκ, VI. 6)), to anoint or wash in every part, hence, to besmear: equivalent to cover with lime (to whitewash or plaster), τό τεῖχος, Thucydides 3, 20; τούς τοίχους τοῦ ἱεροῦ (here to overlay with gold etc.), 1 Chr 29:4; τήν οἰκίαν, Lev 14:42 (for טוּחַ).
2. (εξ( denoting removal (cf. ἐκ, VI. 2)), to wipe off, wipe away: δάκρυον ἀπό (G L T Tr WH ἐκ) τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν, Rev 7:17; Rev 21:4 (R G WH marginal reading, others ἐκ); to obliterate, erase, wipe out, blot out, (Aeschylus, Herodotus, others; the Sept. for מָחָה): τί, Col 2:14; τό ὄνομα ἐκ τῆς βίβλου, Rev 3:5 (Ps. 68(69):, cf. Deut 9:14; Deut 25:6); τάς ἁμαρτίας, the guilt of sins, Acts 3:19 (Ps 108:13; τό ἀνόμημα, τάς ἀνομίας, Isa 43:25; Ps 50:11; Sir. 46:20; τάς ἁμαρτίας ἀπαλείφειν, 3Macc. 2:19).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Exist3 occurrences Application and Removal of Liquids or Masses2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0